Description
We are seeking a UAV Operator, Maneuver Dominance to join our Maneuver Dominance Technical Operations team. As a UAV Operator, you will serve as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations for autonomy-enabled UAVs.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Practicing extreme ownership of all dependencies to ensure Anduril's growing suite of capabilities achieve total mission success in austere, remote environments
- Embedding within an air vehicle development program to leverage operations and technical expertise to shape and deploy a solution of maximum effectiveness and reliability
- Standing up forward-deployed operations in austere environments, ensuring the successful combat employment of Anduril products, and shaping the long-term sustainment of these products
- Participating in the development of vehicle autonomy by supporting test events and customer demonstrations closer to home
Requirements:
- Extensive hands-on technical experience in field operations, manufacturing, or test
- Prior military or defense contractor experience as a manned or unmanned pilot/operator, Network technician, or Crew Chief/maintainer (Avionics, GNC, Electrical)
- Demonstrated understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors
- Ability to solve problems in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and operations in pursuit of mission success
- Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external customers; ability to collect differing opinions and reconcile them in order to achieve agreement on what 'right' looks like
- Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs as a source of truth
- Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for some or all of the following:
- Computers; comfortable in a terminal environment, server management, developing or interacting with programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, MATLAB)
- IP Networking; Network Administration or Design, strong troubleshooting experience required
- Radios; MANET, SATCOM, Backhaul systems
- Ability to train peers or customers on the operation of a product
- Prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience
- Willingness to travel up to 80% including occasional deployments for up to two months at a time
- Ability to work extended hours as required
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
- Ability to meet health and medical requirements in advance of deployments in accordance with DFARS 252.225-7040, DoDI 3020.41, and/or any additional requirements outlined by region or supporting force, as applicable
Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline, hands-on professional experience working with developmental weapon or missile systems on manned and/or unmanned aircraft, and experience with one or more of autonomy, behavior trees, CV models, multi-vehicle operation, ground-based air defense systems, aircraft or launch vehicle flight line operations, or munitions storage and handling controls.